About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging

May 17–July 21, 2019

Featuring creations by Black artists in the collections of BAMPFA and the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, this exhibition organized by UC Berkeley graduate students imagines the liberatory possibilities of celebrating blackness and belonging.

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  • Romare Bearden: Continuities, 1969; collage on board; 50 x 43 in.; BAMPFA, gift of the Childe Hassam Fund of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, © 2019 Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

  • Faith Ringgold: The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1996; color lithograph; 20 x 30 in.; BAMPFA, gift of Moira Roth. © 2019 Faith Ringgold, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

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    Continuities

    Romare Bearden

    1969
    collage on board
    50 x 43 in.
    BAMPFA, gift of the Childe Hassam Fund of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. © 2019 Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

  • Photograph

    San Francisco is the Only City Where You Can Spend a Million and Still Feel Like Shit

    Lyle Ashton Harris
    United States

    1993
    Duraflex photograph
    14 x 20 in.;
    BAMPFA, Gift of Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser. Image: Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York.

  • Print

    The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles

    Faith Ringgold
    United States

    1993
    color lithograph
    20 x 30 in.
    BAMPFA, gift of Moira Roth. © 2019 Faith Ringgold, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

  • Mixed Media

    Local Calm

    Julie Mehretu
    United States

    2005
    sugarlift aquatint with color aquatint, spit bit aquatint, and soft and hard ground etching and engraving, printed on gampi paper chine collé
    27 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.
    BAMPFA, gift of Tecoah and Tom Bruce.

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